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"For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years of drama, among them Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tenessee Williams, Sean O'Casey, and Arthur Miller, to name a few. In the first part of...
2) Uncle Vanya
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Uncle Vanya (1898) is a four-act play by Russian short story writer and playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1899, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Astrov. Reviews were lukewarm at first, but as the play continued to run, Uncle Vanya gained both popularity and critical prowess, and has since become one of the most influential dramas ever produced.
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This drama is intended primarily as a music drama and, more specifically, as an operetta, as it contains passages of very quick dialogue that are written to be spoken, not sung. I would compose music underscore for these in an operetta version. The dramas could also be staged a "straight" spoken play, with some specific musical episodes. Given the convergence that has taken place in media it is imperative that a writer takes a flexible attitude to...
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This Volume assembles the three winning plays of The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2019 (which all premiered at the theatre between 2019 and 2022), making them available in printed format to an even wider audience for the very first time.
• “Hungerland” by Rachel O'Regan
Nicole is preparing the perfect Christmas dinner for her perfect boyfriend in her perfect house. Nothing could ruin her evening - except the arrival of her estranged sister...
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I thank God for the power and knowledge that he have given me to write these plays through His grace and honor it allows me to get the opportunity to minister "The Word of God" to non-believers as well as believers. I truly believe that thru my plays a message is sent, but most of all received. My prayer is that someone's life is change or delivered through watching or performing in these plays. To share with others how powerful God is and that it...
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Cheering and laughing throughout the audiences. You go! The audiences are screaming, cheering with the stomping of the feet throughout the auditorium. And the dancers of dance on fire are on stage, break dancing. Within seconds the boy dancers slide in front of the girls with their dance moves, pin down. As the audiences are jumping up and down screaming, " Go! " while some are screaming, dance on fire." At that moment, Kellisha steps in front of...
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Breaking the Silence of Bullying is a play for educators and community leaders written to ignite a discussion about bullying. Each of its three acts illustrates examples of bullying endured by Cheryl, a middle school student struggling with the loss of her mother at home and the cruelty of one particular boy, Wallace, at school. Wallaces sidekick is Vernon, who serves as a cheerleader for Wallaces intimidating behaviors. Finally, the play gives us...
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In My Mothers Front Porch, four siblings celebrate their mother's life while struggling to deal with her declining years. Staying Connected offers an older persons frustrated yelp against technology mayhem. In 8th Grade Reunion, childhood friends discover who they are 35 years later. Brooklyn Rx follows a musical romance in a beloved neighborhood. In Sister Spirit, a chaplain nun makes a difference on Ricers Island. Homeland Security parodies a real...
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Something is rotten in the state of the interrogation room'. While it seems that the usual murder has occurred it soon becomes evident that things are far more twisted than they first appear. While events in the interrogation room seem to be getting worse and worse, back at home, the tale is slowly unfolding to reveal what really happened.
Was it murder, or was it just an accident?
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Cai Yuanpei A Musical Written in Chinese by Wang Haiping Translated into English by Ouyang Yu The topic and the theme: The New Culture Movement has a far-reaching impact in the modern history of China. Back then, the New Culture Movement, as the ideological foundation of the May Fourth Movement, played a role in ideological enlightenment and iberation. While the May Fourth Movement became the explicit state and the political form of radical revolution,...
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Comical, offbeat, poignant, and fresh, The Best Plays of 2014 presents six of the most original plays of the year in a single volume – selected by renowned editor Lawrence Harbison.
• The Country House, a comedy about a deeply dramatic family, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies.
• Dinner with the Boys, an offbeat, dark comedy by Dan Lauria about some old-time wise guys who want to have a good Italian meal and a few laughs...
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In 10-Minute Plays for Kids, young thespians will find terrific plays by some of our most prominent playwrights – such as Sharyn Rothstein, Alex Broun, Jenny Lyn Bader, Claudia I. Haas, and Mark Harvey Levine, and by others less well known but equally terrific such as Sharai Bohannon, Suzanne Bailie, and Shirley King. The characters and situations portrayed are perfect for the kid actor. Some of the plays explore relatable tales of friendship and...
14) Two Halfs
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John Andrew Murray is a writer, architect and travelogue publisher. He was born and lived in west Belfast through the 60s, 70s and 80s at the height of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland.John is from a working class family. He joined a local running club and completed 4 full marathons before he was 16 years old. He worked for an architect's office when he left school at 16 then moved to England at the age of 20 where he continued working and studying...
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From 21A, the one-man show that launched a career and a whole new perspective on riding the bus, to a sneak peek at the new Minnesota Public Radio–sponsored Gulliver Unraveled, On Stage with Kevin Kling gives readers a behind-the-curtain view of one of Minnesota's most popular storytellers. This collectible volume contains the full text of three of Kevin Kling's stage pieces-21A, Ice Fishing, and Scarecrow on Fire-as well as excerpts from Of Mirth...
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The movie Bendra is about a young girl named Bendra Sky. She had been sexually abused since the age of ten until she was sixteen years old. She became pregnant and had a baby boy. Months after the baby was born, she decided to reveal the father to her best friend, Miss Pierre, who works at the children's department. However, the mother found out who the father was during a visit; at Miss Pierre's house. The DNA test was revealed.
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POSEIDON IN ATLANTIS – LONG SYNOPSIS The background: This is the second of 4 dramas in the Atlantis cycle. In the first, "Eden In Atlantis", dissident scientist Lucifer was banished from Celestium, capital city of the great southern land, for revealing secrets of fire to the common people. He was exiled to an island in the Atlantic, Atlantiha, where a matriarchal society ruled. Taking the name of Adam, he brought science to the island, by which...
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Luces de bohemia, escrita en 1920, es una obra clave en la historia del teatro español y universal.
Su singularidad impidió que fuera escenificada hasta 1963 (en París) y, posteriormente, en Valencia de forma comercial (1970). El teatro español no supo comprender un texto que planteaba conflictos éticos, estéticos y técnicos de difícil representación. La obra es una denuncia moral, cultural, ideológica y estética de la sociedad española...
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Geniuses are few and far between. Most of them will have honors and prizes showered upon them. But there will be exceptions, numerous exceptions: We dont know how many because they never make it; they fall by the wayside. They believe themselves to be alone in a hostile world, unable to adapt, unable to bring their ideas to fruition. They detest their inferiors and detest even more their superiors. One such genius, a historian with acute observations...
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Ever wonder what it's like to be a real working actor? Wonder no more! Michael Kostroff is here to reveal, in hilarious detail, just what it's like to travel with the road companies of The Producers and Les Miserables. His firsthand account of the exciting, funny, and sometimes bizarre highlights of his journey includes working at a temp job when his agent calls to say, "You got the part!"; singing on a revolving stage while lugging a dead body; seeing...
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